Thin Lizzy 'Cowboy Song/Boys Are Back In Town'

Live on the steps of the Sydney Opera House 1978.

[@drivewaystar6485]

These two songs played together like this brings on the tears...idk why, but really I do know why.

[@ricardomunoz8570]

I also feel that emotion and feeling, but in the end I am smiling, shaking my head and singing. Something has this presentation, and how the two songs come together. Simply the music does it, the great Phill Lynnot and the whole band. Greetings from Mexico.

[@rock90753]

Music is a beautiful thing, I have so many happy and sad memories tied to my memory thru music and I continue to make new ones! When we really look back to the place a song takes us and miss it and wish we cherished it more at that time, those can be painful moments, for me at least.

[@CCHPOUNDER420]

I feel the same way by the time second solo comes in on cowboy song.

[@richbardon8936]

The good old days....and they ain't coming back...

[@SuperStrik9]

Phil @ 5:05 " The cowboy's life... Is the life for me.". Right into The Boys Are Back In Town is a great moment.

[@PistholenDeafje]

One of the greatest moments in musical history as far as I'm concerned

[@varangianwanderer4023]

it always gives me a shiver of epicness

[@haggismacphee2005]

Just got goosebumps and hair stood up on me neck.

[@iflyc77]

Absolutely the best song tie in history. You can’t play one song without playing them both

[@Danfrombackhome]

Its so kick ass

[@Wanderglobe]

Phil Lynott was one of the coolest, most bad ass, talented front men ever and Thin Lizzy is one of the greatest rock bands of all time. I was lucky to see their second last show in Germany. Would have been a shame to have never seen Phil live. And yes, that transition kicks ass. I always loved it.

[@johngalt1884]

I'm jealous...

[@Danfrombackhome]

WanderGlobe Phil was so cool. The prototypical rockstar

[@msamandaandersonbreed2194]

Dancing in the moom light

[@johnny300166]

@Michael Cheeser you are Lucky. I wish i've deen Them

[@mikegallagher4388]

I'm from Dublin and I agree with every word you said. That transition is so kickass.

[@daa2608]

an immensely talented group of musicians, Lizzy's twin guitars never get old

[@jacob45415]

Who’s that ?

[@ShitSoda]

most underrated band of all time

[@tearitloosetearitloose4670]

It's 5:40am. I need to get some sleep.. Ah one more listen won't hurt. 🤘

[@kevindonnelly9811]

They reached higher levels of conciousness in this performance and thats why people react emotionally. Just a pure out of this world performance!

[@michaeledwards4715]

Blew the speakers out if my 77 dodge listening to this song in louisiana in the Bayou swamp drinking Beer and smoking ". Red- Bud " columbian weed !! Ah! To be young again;!

[@TheTrace8]

I'm so happy to see this again. I watched this medley about 50 times, no joke, about 6 or 7 years ago. Then I couldn't find the old link. This IS THE BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE ON KZbin. Rock on in peace, Phil.

[@Nordraw]

and you too Gary

[@richardjohnson474]

Les Paul's and Marshall stacks rock and roll at it's finest

[@nebojsagrbic5593]

No one, I said no one could start emotions like Thin Lizzy. Amazing!

[@Wayneogston]

One of the best live videos I ever seen. In my country Australia too. They played so good

[@Danfrombackhome]

Wayne Ogston ive never saw or heard a bad live preformance from thin lizzy tbf

[@johnny300166]

One of the best? For me,The best!!!!!

[@PaulSmith-zb1nm]

The transition... still gives me chills God knows how many years later

[@jimdalziel6226]

Best frontman ever. Absolutely glorious !

[@Danfrombackhome]

Jim Dalziel phil ruled

[@peterthart531]

There is Peter Green's LP in the hands of a very capable Gary Moore. Awesome

[@larrocovarry9027]

Was hoping someone noticed this !!!

[@YandTIII]

R&R Hall Induction committee, are U listening/watching this MOST influential, meritorious & deserving band!?

[@canopener505ify]

That chick don't wanna know. Forget 'em

[@nicholasharalambopoulos6771]

1978 with an ALL STAR line up! We all miss Phil....

[@SethHesio]

I remember being drunk/ hungover and out of my mind... and this song just became fused with my mind one afternoon... I can remember it so well. Great song, I have over listened to it on occasion though. :)

[@ProCoRat]

those guitar solos were both already incredible, they really hammed em up in this show!

[@sdarryg3413]

All i see is a band having a ball

[@FoolishFlock]

Thin-Lizzy!! was! just! absolutely!! on! fire!! in! this! performance!!!... .R.i.P.!!! :TO: Phil-Lynott!!!.. & Gary-Moore!!!.. 😢😫😭❤💔❤🙏🙏

[@Sayzar909]

Great songs saw them in the late 70's fucking fun times !!

[@StarCityFAME]

that's when i saw them too, with Queen, at MSG in NY. sooooo awesome! good old days when ya got a loge seat for $7.50... unbelievable nowadays.

[@tvhpatrice]

Wow what year was that!?? I’d murder to see both those front men do their thing...

[@jamesedwards2237]

This ain't Metal, just good old kick-ass Rock and Roll! Sadly, I never got a chance to see these guys live. RIP Phil and Gary!

[@myloutoob]

We would party for days listening to Thin Lizzy. Great driving tunes! Many miles of smiles. Ah, the good old days. Party on.

[@couches11]

THE greatest rock n roll band of all time

[@ggforeigner]

one of my fave vids for long time ... lost it, found here again ... thank-you very much !!!

[@drivewaystar6485]

This is the best thing ive ever seen

[@johnny300166]

Best live performance ever !!

[@volaju2071]

That transition is hella epic.

[@carlbesola]

Music like this can put the depressed in a good mood!

[@TheTebor]

best ever cant beat this

[@mspegar]

thx for posting video... Gary and Phil -- you guys were the best. RIP....

[@marksudlow5083]

The bit were he goes in front of the Mic is epic....

[@orlandogoes83]

Good transition cowboy-boys, thin did it many times alive...live and dangerous, sidney...we miss a lot phil...high class R&R man and band : - )......!!!!!!!!!

[@mikejmckie9487]

The music was amazing and still is can listen over and over never gets old

[@billywhiteley1355]

Would give anything to have seen the greatest front man in history live #fuckbeinga90skid

[@mikejmckie9487]

Wish I had a time machine to watch them

[@Danfrombackhome]

Mike J Mckie as long as you let me go with you!

[@uo8am]

Nice to see this back again thanks for posting

[@roc2389]

Thin Lizzy live kicked ass like no other band. This will live forever as one of the best live rock performances of any band anywhere, anytime.

[@bif3578]

This is just so great...it doesn’t get any better than this!

[@mickes001]

THIS IS METAL !!!!! Gets every party started,,awesome,,,miss U like hell,,,

[@redsky106]

managed to see this great band live in the early 80s,what a privilege

[@josefhanyka2778]

I came from Austria to London to see Status Quo at a Festival and before them, there was "Thin Lizzy". Not to be forgotten.

[@Danfrombackhome]

Phil was so cool

[@thomaso3426]

On the Live & Dangerous record a couple of songs have a harmonica. It was played by a harp player from opening act Clover. It was Bluesy Huey Lewis

[@luther_beckett]

Phil was the best Irish poet ever to sling an axe.

[@RomMechEng]

And that right there is how it's done.

[@24hoursadaywithbobr]

Still gives me chills in 2023

[@loafbo]

I couldn't find this for ages, love it

[@Paaarrrp]

truly truly awesome RIP Phil and Gary sadly missed

[@LRBerry]

I saw Lizzy 3 times and they were excellent every time. Wish I was in Dublin this weekend for The Vibe for Philo. Went in 2013 with my son and had a brilliant time.

[@foflynn]

Can't believe there are not more views/comments - fantastic video . thanks!!!

[@Mothersown]

Coolest of the cool music from the best era in music history... cannot listen to this enough! LOVE -- thank you!

[@2112cupcake]

Love this!!!!! Always look for the combo! :)

[@SethHesio]

This song just reminds me of feeling happy and sad, surrounded by people but alone, and totally tired but unavoidably wired... the life of an addict sucks. And I hope one day this song will mean something else to me. It's too good a song to always remind me of one pissed away afternoon/ decade.

[@comsen1]

Saw them in Live & Dangerous tour mid-70s and was deaf for a week! Fantastic. If music is therapy, then TL have to be the best therapists ever.

[@johntindall6702]

Saw Lizzy the on black rose tour and live and dangerous your best gigs ever

[@johntindall6702]

Fav lizzy song rip Gary and phil

[@aerts06]

What A VOICE !!!!!!

[@maree333345skehan]

saw them the week before in Brisbane when I was 18 awesome I think I m getting abit emotional I think ive watched this clip about 100 times owned johhny the fox back in the day some brilliant songs good mixture balads anthems driving songs johnny,fools gold my two all time favs thanks for posting

[@Danfrombackhome]

Rock n fn roll man! I love thin lizzy \m/

[@loafbo]

Dude I was about to leave the exact same comment...i was always wondering why it was taken down, I would be typing in "Thin lizzy cowboy song and boys are back live in sydney" I was annoyed that i couldn't watch it haha

[@kneapoe51]

Same as below me, where did it go? GLAD to see it back!!! lol Just finished watching another vid & alot of comments about Thin Lizzy not being in HOF ( Shame,rather, we all know politics involved ). Didn't comment there but now that I've thought more about it, it IS a shame when Abba, Madonna, Ice Cube,?? ect., are & this band, is NOT. It actually surprises me more who ISN'T there, than who IS. The politics involved plus those who do the voting I assume, as I understand it, anyways. RIP Phil.

[@darrendavis6956]

seen them in 78 in melb great show , what a front man .

[@tjfreak]

I spent 11-21 feeling happy/sad/depressed,surrounded by people but ALONE,the life of an addict/alcoholic sucks. that afternoon/ decade. was supposed to be the development years.. I missed the boat...on a good note I saw TL when I was 13...in 78

[@VikramShankarMusic]

Happy birthday Phil!

[@carloskreidl7078]

alto tema zarpado!!

[@donaldmitchell4700]

rock n roll done correctly.

[@cathis83]

Best of the best.. Forever.

[@junkyardjim]

One day while working for AT&T phone tech support i was shooting the shit with a customer and somehow thin lizzy came up (their email addy maybe?) Well it turned out that the husband was in a TL cover band. I asked her (he was there but not on with me) if they ever saw this video, and explaned how awesome the transition is. While we waited for something they got this video up and watched it. Once the transition hit "Woooow.. We're playing it like this from now on..." Hahaha.

[@kneapoe51]

Great to see this back up. Muchas Gracias!! Saludos!! :D

[@hamjohn8737]

This is the ONE! Markflem mixed the 'good' sound recording with the video! I lost this for about a year and just now found it

[@williamboyer2983]

magical...

[@frankdoubleUdoubleL]

Rock & Roll...hell yeah!

[@cyberbehrens3575]

just awesome !

[@patbrat59]

great sound quality good to see this is back up

[@Danfrombackhome]

If you dont like thin lizzy you dont like rock n roll

[@CigarsNTequila]

Awesome concert!! Rip Phil

[@Hvitserk67]

Phil Lynott may not have been the best bass player, but he was definitely a very good songwriter and not least an eminent singer/performer. Another characteristic of Thin Lizzy was that the rhythm section played really tight and with a lot of power (perhaps not so strange since Phil played the bass). The sum of this combined with various eminent guitar players was absolutely brilliant. The band was without a doubt among the greats of their time. It's really sad that drug addiction ruined this as it has for so many other great bands and musicians. Phil unfortunately died far too young at only 36 years old due to heroin abuse.

[@matthewtaylor7316]

At 7:50 Gary Moore flips somebody off. In the Live Blues for Jimi Foxy Lady at I think at around 2:30 Moore has somebody in the crowd removed with a nod of his head, a smile and a little interaction with the individual. That's power..

[@danielajabenigerian9995]

[@matthewtaylor7316]

My mistake in foxy lady the nod and smile are at 1:37 and the interaction with the fool in the crowd is at 1:52. I don't blame Moore a bit. He's busy doing his job. And I can think of a few times over the years I wish had that kinda clout.

[@johnvanwagoner3624]

the best

[@TheWarriorOffHardcore]

Lekker hoor jammer dat er nu niet meer is rock en roll junky en Irich folk astamiaur ......\________________LOVE SPACE SPEED

[@SethHesio]

MARTY!

[@cousinnastee495]

I heard Dick Wagner say once one of the keys to a great live performance is lots of rehearsal . In addition you don't get too excited and you don't perform drunk or drugged up . Well that's his opinion . It certainly did work for one of the most legendary, greatest musically rock concerts ever for Him , Steve Hunter second lead , Prakash John bass , and rest of band in december 1973 backing Lou Reed live in NYC . Lou Reed was just the sick joker, with his talk, yell, "vocals" who wrote the songs and "sang"(although it was interesting contrast , reeds weird vocals and the bands superb playing. It was the band that made it one of the greatest ever. But then again Carlos Santana said he and band were totally stoned, f**ked up , on lsd , etc at woodstock and that was another legendary performance

[@TheJackflash85]

Damn right agreed!

[@howardhannum5474]

underrated drummer

[@StarCityFAME]

i hear ya friend!

[@groudonwill]

RIP PHIL LYNOTT

[@danielpasqual6693]

Sean Derek Pasqual rest in peace brother😥🤣😎😎😎😎😎😎.

[@janwaalwijk666]

Remember Phil Gary Lemmy Philty Wurzel and anyone I forgot of the second Era of Rock n Roll.

[@SethHesio]

Well, we're both alive now, so we must be doing something right :) It's just hard to let go of wasted years and leave regret behind. Hope you're doing well now.

[@Sreybk]

Les Paul Heaven.

[@88Gibson1]

Who are the 12 that do not like this?

[@TheJackflash85]

Morons Idiots Stupids- People who don't get music - real rock and roll!

[@scottelliott5816]

If he did not Play Bass Guitar and Chain Smoke ( Like Me ) Phil could have been the best basketball player in Ireland!

[@felixmyballs]

@ grtguy2 - If they did I would buy all the tkts for this trip

[@thesubstitute]

Cowboy checking in.... (I'm out there)

[@loafbo]

Let me know if you get on please

[@winstonsmith3370]

Thin Lizzy is NOT in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That’s shocking.

[@TheClassicrocker67]

Ahhh, back when popular music didn't suck ass...

[@kenchamberlain2552]

rip phil lynott